Comment Only in t'north (Score 2) 229
Down south they also call it supper...
(You probably have to be English to get that)
Comment Re:No solution selection? (Score 5, Informative) 241
Being a brazilian myself, I have to assure you it's not the electronic booth only. The whole election process is audited from beginning to end, software source code is independently audited, compiled and the binary is signed, in a full day cerimony.
The software activates itself an hour before the elections begin, and it must be closed at most a couple of hours after the election ends, or the booth is invalidated. It stores only two information: if an registered elector voted, and the vote itself, but no link is made between information. Data itself is encrypted and only the Superior Electoral Court President Judge has the key, which is he/she hands off to the Regional Judges only after all booths are recovered to the regional courts.
The whole thing is very straightforward, but the process has many control points and locks, so it would require an army of fraudsters for the elections to be cheated.
Comment Re:How they know... (Score 2) 175
They probably know this physical model will exhibit a magnetic field because they did a FEA and CFD simulations of the thing. So why then did it have to be built?
Because simulations do not substitute real experiments. For instance, why would one need LHC if the simulations show the Higgs boson? (Q.E.D.)
Submission + - Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material (eweekeurope.co.uk) 1
judgecorp writes: "Researcherse at Stanford University have invented a battery material that could allow batteries to go through 400,000 charging cycles instead of the 400 or so which today's Li-ion batteries can manage. Among the uses could be storing energy to even out the availability of renewable sources such as sun and wind."
Submission + - FBI scolds NASDAQ on out of date patches (computerworlduk.com)
DMandPenfold writes: NASDAQ’s ageing software and out of date security patches played a key part in the stock exchange being hacked last year, according to the reported preliminary results of an FBI investigation.
Forensic investigators found some PCs and servers with out-of-date software and uninstalled security patches, Reuters reported, including Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The stock exchange had also incorrectly configured some of its firewalls.
NASDAQ, which prides itself on running some of the fastest client-facing systems in the financial world, does have a generally sound PC and network architecture, the FBI reportedly found.
But sources close to the investigation told Reuters that NASDAQ had been an “easy target” because of the specific security problems found. Investigators had apparently expressed surprise that the stock exchange had not been more vigilant.
Forensic investigators found some PCs and servers with out-of-date software and uninstalled security patches, Reuters reported, including Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The stock exchange had also incorrectly configured some of its firewalls.
NASDAQ, which prides itself on running some of the fastest client-facing systems in the financial world, does have a generally sound PC and network architecture, the FBI reportedly found.
But sources close to the investigation told Reuters that NASDAQ had been an “easy target” because of the specific security problems found. Investigators had apparently expressed surprise that the stock exchange had not been more vigilant.
Submission + - Fedora 16 Released (fedoraproject.org)
Karrde712 writes: Fedora 16 has just been released, bringing with it Gnome 3.2, KDE 4.7, GRUB2 and more! Full release notes are available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/index.html
PETA To Launch Pornography Website 348
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are planning on launching an adult oriented website to help protect animals through a mix of animal suffering footage and porn. I'm not sure how mixing the two will win hearts, minds, or naughty bits, but Lindsay Rajt, PETA's associate director of campaigns, seems to think it's a good idea. She says, "We're hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site."
Submission + - NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites (nasa.gov)
sighted writes: "Sharp new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites in amazing detail, including the last foot trails left by astronauts on the lunar surface."
Submission + - Wicked Lasers Sells One-Watt Green Laser (wickedlasers.com)
cogent writes: "Wicked Lasers, famous for last year's 1000mW handheld blue laser, and infamous for its handling of six-month-long backorders, is now selling a green version. There are three power levels, each priced at $1/mW. Since the eye is far more sensitive to green than to blue, this is pretty much the state of the art in putting-dots-on-stuff technology. Wicked Lasers sent out an email, promising to handle backorders much better this time."
Comment Look for the island (Score 1) 205
Widmore knows!! They're alive!! Linus told me!
Disempowering the Singular Sysadmin? 433
An anonymous reader writes "Practically every computer system appears to be at the mercy of at least one individual who holds root (or whatever other superuser identity can destroy or subvert that system). However, making a system require multiple individuals for any root operation (think of the classic two-key process to launch a nuke) has shortcomings: simple operations sometimes require root, and would be enormously cumbersome if they needed a consensus of administrators to execute. There is the idea of a Distributed Administration Network, which is like a cluster of independently administered servers, but this is a limited case for deployment of certain applications. And besides, DAN appears still to be vaporware. Are there more sweeping yet practical solutions out there for avoiding the weakness of a singular empowered superuser?"
Scientists Find Tears Are the Anti-Viagra 207
An anonymous reader writes "The male test subjects didn't know what they were smelling, they were just given little vials of clear liquid and told to sniff. But when those vials contained a woman's tears (collected while she watched a sad movie), the men rated pictures of women's faces as less sexually attractive, and their saliva contained less testosterone. Is this proof that humans make and respond to pheromones? The researcher behind the study doesn't use that controversial word, but he says his findings do prove that tears contain meaningful chemical messages."
Submission + - OpenSSL 1.0 Released (openssl.org)
hardaker writes: After over 11 years of development since the Start of the OpenSSL Project (1998-12-23), OpenSSL version 1.0 has finally hit the shelves of the free-for-all-store.
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 844
I second that.
Comment Re:Don't suppose it ever occurred to you... (Score 1) 823
This is much better, since you also overcome the 48h forgetting window.
If you don't force yourself to look for a piece of information for a time, it goes to oblivion. Your mind takes care of throwing unused info to the mental garbage bin, and our internal garbage collector runs on an average of 48h.
Writing it down creates some positive feedback that makes that information valuable, and copying it to the computer reinforces it (taking the internal reference counter to 2).
If you don't force yourself to look for a piece of information for a time, it goes to oblivion. Your mind takes care of throwing unused info to the mental garbage bin, and our internal garbage collector runs on an average of 48h.
Writing it down creates some positive feedback that makes that information valuable, and copying it to the computer reinforces it (taking the internal reference counter to 2).
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